[mythtv-users] Help running mythtv-setup

[Nick Rout]

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 8:19 AM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 03/08/2012 01:41 PM, James Klaas wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 1:16 PM, R. G. Newbury wrote:
>>> On 03/08/2012 11:13 AM, James Klaas wrote:
>>>> Hi.  My upgrade/reinstallation of MythTV seems to be going backwards.
>>>> I'm a little frustrated at this point.
>>>> I keep getting sidetracked by apparently irrelevant errors.
>>>>
>>>> I removed all the database files,
>
>
> Did you do a backup of the database?  Do you still have the mysql data
> files?  If so, I /highly/ recommend doing a backup (to a safe,
> re-usable, portable SQL format) before doing anything more.  Just read
> the quick start section at:
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Database_Backup_and_Restore
>
>>>>   I removed all the packages and tried
>>>> starting over from scratch.  I reinstalled the Ubuntu packages from
>>>> the mythbuntu packages using 0.25 since I've got a Ceton.
>>>>
>>>> When I run mythtv-setup, I get the Country/Language dialog, but
>>>> there's no Language list.  Looking in the kern.log I see lots of
>>>> errors about libQtCore.so.4.6.2 segfaulting.
>>>> Can anyone help.  This should be as clean an install as installing from scratch.
>>> This sounds more like a distro problem. You either have a bad package or
>>> there is a missing dependency, as libQtcore is not a myth library.
>>>
>>> Maybe back up a step: save everything, nuke the disk and start again, so
>>> you can *really* be sure it is 'as clean an install as installing from
>>> scratch'.
>> I may be doing the next best thing soon and doing a dist upgrade (I'm
>> currently running 10.04 LTS), but since this is my main home server as
>> well wiping the disk and starting over isn't really an option.  I may
>> take a step back and just create a dedicated mythtv server.  I had
>> hoped to avoid that though.
>>
>> Since mythtv relies on the QT libraries, it seems at least
>> peripherally related.  I've seen a few other posts regarding this
>> error, but there was no resolution there either.
>>
>
> Sounds like you may have old mythtv libs and new mythtv libs together on
> the same system and they aren't mixing well.
>
> I recommend removing all installed mythtv packages, then looking for any
> /usr/lib/libmyth* or /usr/lib/mythtv (and /usr/local/lib/libmyth* or
> /usr/local/lib/mythtv ) files and then deleting them.  You can (and
> probably should) keep /usr{,/local}/share/mythtv or /etc/mythtv files.
> Then, reinstall the packages and things should work better.

Now I saw a post with a similar problem (lack of language options on
the forst setup page) and someone suggested there was a library
package not installed.

So what packages did you install when you re-installed myth?